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Sugar & Sage Bakery Wants You Back for Lunch

For most of its life, Sugar & Sage Bakery has been a morning place. People come to the shop on Lovers Lane for a kouign-amann and a coffee, linger over a danish, maybe leave with a box of pastries. Now the bakery wants you back around noon.

Sugar & Sage has rolled out a lineup of five made-to-order sandwiches and wraps, and if you know anything about what executive chef Jill Bates does with butter and dough, you already know why that’s good news. The breads are baked in-house, the croissants come out of the same kitchen that turns out the bakery’s famous pastries, and the whole menu reads like it was put together by someone who understands that a great sandwich starts with what’s holding it together.

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 Maman To Open New Casa Linda Café Tomorrow

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East Dallas gets its second maman in six months on Thursday, Oct. 15, when the New York-born café and bakery opens at Casa Linda Plaza. Doors open at 8 a.m. at 1152 N. Buckner Blvd., Suite 124, in the space Schlotzsky’s held for years.

This is the fourth North Texas address for the brand. Maman made its Texas debut at The Plaza at Preston Center last November, opened in Lakewood’s Hillside Village in April and followed with a café at Legacy East in Plano in August. Southlake and The Seam in the Design District are still on the way.

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Six DFW Roasters Worth a Detour This National Coffee Day

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National Coffee Day lands on Tuesday, September 29, and the chains will spend it handing out free cups with an app download. Fine. Take the freebie if it’s on your way. Then spend the rest of the week somewhere that roasts its own beans, knows the regulars by their order, and has a story behind the counter.

Dallas and Fort Worth have plenty of those now, which was not always true. A few regulars have already had their own day on these pages, including Noble Coyote in Expo Park and Ascension. Here are six more shops worth a detour this week, split between both sides of the Metroplex.

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What Makes French Press Coffee Different, and Where to Find a Good One in Dallas

There’s a reason the French press has outlasted every countertop gadget that’s tried to replace it. No pods, no paper filters, no app to sync. Just coarse grounds, hot water, and a few minutes of patience. It’s the closest thing coffee has to a dumb-simple machine, and that simplicity is exactly why it makes such a good cup.

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9 Independent Dallas Coffee Shops Worth Skipping Starbucks For

Somewhere in Dallas right now, a barista is pulling a shot inside a converted 1975 VW bus, another is roasting beans on a machine built from an old BBQ grill, and a third is steaming milk for a rose-and-cardamom latte in a shop named after a Middle Eastern marketplace. None of it happened by accident, and none of it happened at a drive-thru with a green logo. Here are the names that actually matter right now, the big local institutions everyone already knows alongside a handful of smaller shops worth discovering, every one of them verified open and linked so there’s no guesswork getting there.

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Kilo Is Bringing Gram-Precise Coffee to Snider Plaza

Alex Vu taught himself to fix an espresso machine by watching videos online, working the equipment at his family’s Vietnamese restaurant, V’s House, in North Richland Hills. That repair job turned into a real obsession with dialing in a cup of coffee, and it’s the reason a new specialty cafe called Kilo is set to open this summer at 6600 Snider Plaza, Suite 110, right next to the new Sueño location.

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Inside The Wild Detectives, the Oak Cliff House That Turned Books and Booze into a Dallas Institution

Javier García del Moral and Paco Vique met as civil engineers, which is not the résumé line most people would guess for the two men behind Dallas’s most quietly influential bookstore. Both are Spanish, both landed in Texas separately, del Moral in Austin in 2008 and Vique in Dallas a year later, and both carried the same memory from home: Tipos Infames, a bookstore and wine bar in Madrid where literature and drinking shared the same room without either one feeling like an afterthought. When del Moral moved to Dallas in 2011, the two friends started planning a version of that idea for Oak Cliff, and on February 28, 2014, The Wild Detectives opened its doors in a 1940s Craftsman house on West 8th Street, just off the edge of Bishop Arts.

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Nativo Café y Bodega Is the Most Personal New Coffee Shop in Fort Worth

Karla Orta started selling native plants out of the back of her RAV4. Then her parents’ driveway. Then she opened a nursery on White Settlement Road in Fort Worth, and when people kept showing up and lingering, she put a café next to it. Nativo Café y Bodega opened May 16, and the two businesses now sit side by side at 1701 White Settlement Road — native plants on one side, espresso and focaccia on the other.

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